Fairy Tales for Adults

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me : Forty New Fairy Tales.
Edited by Kate Bernheimer
Spooky, shocking, and surreal narrative tricks and treats are in store for the reader in forty stories
inspired by classic folktales from around the world.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says
that he'll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she'll
marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous
land of faerie, where not everything is what it appears.

Princess Bride by William Goldman

Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling
of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to “Beasts of all natures and
descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths.
Passions.”

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby : Scary
Fairy Tales by Liudmila Petrushevskaia
Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural
interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the
spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by
a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia-or
anywhere else in the world-today.

The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar

British author Millar offers fiercely funny (and often inebriated) Scottish fairies, a poignant love
story as well as insights into the gravity of Crohn's disease, cultural conflicts and the plight of the
homeless in this fey urban fantasy.

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the
celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither
can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author
into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.